Hacker News: aykutseker

New comment by aykutseker in "Claude Fable 5"

aykutseker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:52:02 +0000

who's tried it: is 2x the usage actually worth it over Opus 4.8 for daily work?

New comment by aykutseker in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

aykutseker — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:09:28 +0000

Moving from tdnf to dnf5 is interesting. Most internal platforms get more bespoke over time, not less.

New comment by aykutseker in "Why are large language models so terrible at video games?"

aykutseker — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:59:14 +0000

A failed test often points at the mistake. Most games just tell you that the outcome was bad.

New comment by aykutseker in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

aykutseker — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:59:15 +0000

Storage never ended up being the thing we worried about. The painful bits started once a workflow could touch external systems. Replaying state is one thing. Replaying a charge or an email is another. How are you dealing with that?

New comment by aykutseker in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

aykutseker — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:55:17 +0000

The independent AI explainer is generated by the same Gemini that writes the ad creative next to it, inside the same ads product. Independent of what, exactly

New comment by aykutseker in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

aykutseker — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:12:50 +0000

the glorified marketer framing in this thread is missing the bigger signal. karpathy publicly pausing eureka labs to join anthropic is an ai founder of his caliber effectively conceding that verticals get eaten by frontier upgrades.for everyone here building on top of foundation, that's the actual news

New comment by aykutseker in "Google I/O"

aykutseker — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:55:27 +0000

flash beating the pro it was distilled from is suspicious, not surprising.distillation usually loses you something. if the smaller model is winning on agentic evals, the more likely read is the evals weren't measuring agent quality in the first place. that's the bigger problem for builders, not which model to pick.

New comment by aykutseker in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

aykutseker — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:27:13 +0000

Clean room needs an independent second party with their own intent. An AI rewrite probably doesn't qualify, since its output traces directly to what it read.

New comment by aykutseker in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

aykutseker — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:13 +0000

the EU funds argument works both ways. plenty of countries received similar transfers and didn't compound it the same way. the interesting question isn't where the money came from, it's what Poland did with it that others didn't.

New comment by aykutseker in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

aykutseker — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:12:48 +0000

the real test is whether the Klein bottle business got a sympathy bump in sales

New comment by aykutseker in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

aykutseker — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:53:13 +0000

Grass is greener works at month two. By month nine your muscle memory is still wrong.

New comment by aykutseker in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

aykutseker — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:34:16 +0000

all caps in a prompt is a code smell. when you're typing MANDATORY, you should be writing a wrapper, not refining the prose.

New comment by aykutseker in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

aykutseker — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:52:24 +0000

The Hub captures decisions humans made. It can't see the ones they didn't, which is most of what AI ships. You instrument the deliberate half and inherit the undeliberate one.

New comment by aykutseker in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

aykutseker — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:01:07 +0000

2021: a Reddit short squeeze kept GameStop from going under. 2026: GameStop is bidding $55B for eBay, a company 4x its size. If it lands, this might be the strangest full circle moment public markets have ever produced.

New comment by aykutseker in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

aykutseker — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:21:54 +0000

This seems less like Kimi is better at coding than Claude and more like Kimi found the right strategy for this particular game.

Still interesting though. The fact that an open weight model is close enough for that to matter is probably the real story.

New comment by aykutseker in "AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights"

aykutseker — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:22:28 +0000

The uncomfortable part is that this is probably rational behavior for both sides.

Employers use models to filter resumes, candidates optimize resumes for those models, and suddenly the resume is no longer written for a human at all.

New comment by aykutseker in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"

aykutseker — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:49:58 +0000

curious how much of the output quality is the design systems and skill files doing real work vs claude just being very good at HTML. the prompt stack matters, but it's hard to know how much.

New comment by aykutseker in "Your Website Is Not for You"

aykutseker — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:52:09 +0000

had this exact fight. founder wanted it more corporate, designer had the research, designer won.

six months later pipeline was dead. buyers were enterprise procurement, the new look read as too small to trust with our budget.

research was right. just not about these users.

New comment by aykutseker in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

aykutseker — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:20:30 +0000

thanks. honestly didn't catch the rhyme, accidental aphorism :D

New comment by aykutseker in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

aykutseker — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:39:41 +0000

good example from the article: the chroot+nss CVE. the rule that nss is dynamic and dlopens libraries from inside the chroot isn't anywhere obvious. it's encoded in 25+ years of sysadmins finding it out. clean-room rewrites end up re-learning that, usually as new CVEs. and LLM ports of the same code inherit the problem: the function signature is what they read, but the scars are what they need.